No! Because network marketing though a relatively new business model, is legitimate and legal but very little understood and mostly mistaken for other
practises. Simply put, It is a very good way of starting a profitable, full-time business with little or no investment. It is also a good method of starting
a second or part-time business to run alongside your existing business, career or lifestyle.
It is a model now used by some top companies such as Gillette, coca cola, body shop, virgin etc. It is also now being taught in several major business schools
as the most successful way for people to transform their income levels and lifestyle without having to risk their jobs or having to make any huge
investments.
This business method has now been used by Forever Living products successfully for over 30 years.
As opposed to network marketing, Pyramid selling was outlawed in 1973 – though this has not deterred some unscrupulous people from still using it .
Some of the quickest ways of spotting a pyramid scheme include:
- the complete absence of any product
- there is a product but it gets passed from one person to the next without being consumed, and increases in price as it goes - it's typically sold in bulk
- you have to invest a large sum
- it's a new company, it keeps disappearing and re-emerging or it's not registered with the Direct Selling Association (DSA)
- only the people who are in at the beginning make any real money
- training is expensive
- you are promised a huge income in weeks.